TY - MGZN
KW - Africa
KW - Dissemination
KW - Knowledge
KW - Medicine
KW - Preservation
KW - religion
KW - Spiritual
KW - tradition
KW - Worship
AU - T. Falola
AB - African epistemology provides a close linkage between the physical and metaphysical, demonstrated especially in the prevalent belief in reincarnation and ancestral worship. It also explains why Africans ascribe mystical interpretations and meanings to physical phenomenon. This way, essential aspects of indigenous African knowledge, that is, the experiences gained over centuries of interaction with the environment, have been enshrined in religious and spiritual edicts, beliefs, and practical activities to maintain social order well-being. African traditional religious knowledge, therefore, assumes such expressions as spiritual worship, medical practice, customary law/taboos, and identity and worldviews of the people gathered by custodians like priests, healers, traditional pharmacists, religious heads, elders, and traditional rulers to be disseminated through various ways of learning.
C2 - The Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-89500-6_38
N2 - African epistemology provides a close linkage between the physical and metaphysical, demonstrated especially in the prevalent belief in reincarnation and ancestral worship. It also explains why Africans ascribe mystical interpretations and meanings to physical phenomenon. This way, essential aspects of indigenous African knowledge, that is, the experiences gained over centuries of interaction with the environment, have been enshrined in religious and spiritual edicts, beliefs, and practical activities to maintain social order well-being. African traditional religious knowledge, therefore, assumes such expressions as spiritual worship, medical practice, customary law/taboos, and identity and worldviews of the people gathered by custodians like priests, healers, traditional pharmacists, religious heads, elders, and traditional rulers to be disseminated through various ways of learning.
PY - 2022
SP - 497
EP - 514
TI - Codification, Documentation, and Transmission of Knowledge in African Traditional Religion
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85165048432&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-030-89500-6_38&partnerID=40&md5=dd2ffb5abfc302e7aec5ca6e366a7852
ER -